{"id":19480,"date":"2018-12-19T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2018-12-19T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:31:35","slug":"hometown-kid-keaton-ellis-signs-with-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2018\/12\/19\/hometown-kid-keaton-ellis-signs-with-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Hometown Kid Keaton Ellis Signs With Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hometown Kid Keaton Ellis Signs with Penn State<\/h2>\n<p>Hometown kid Keaton Ellis signs with Penn State. Ellis adds speed and agility to an inexperienced secondary. He is a four-star cornerback recruit, per 247Sports composite rankings. Ellis helped lead the State College Little Lions to the Pennsylvania State Semi-Finals a month ago. He did so while playing on both sides of the ball. Ellis is also likely to enroll at Penn State early in January.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Keaton Ellis?<\/h2>\n<p>Keaton Ellis is fast, agile, and athletic. When you start to watch Ellis on the field, and off, he will likely remind you of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/kj-hamler-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KJ Hamler<\/a>. He is quick, all over the field, and has good football awareness. Further, off the field he is light-hearted and funny, at least that&#8217;s the word around State College Area High School. He will bring a spark to the Nittany Lion secondary that will be relatively inexperienced entering the 2019 season. Ellis will join fellow early signee, Joey Porter Jr. in a secondary that loses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/amani-oruwariye-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amani Oruwariye<\/a> and captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/nick-scott-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Scott<\/a> to graduation. With the loss of two veterans, Ellis will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/john-reid-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Reid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tariq-castro-fields-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tariq Castro-Fields<\/a> to learn from before stepping on the field for the Nittany Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis is living every hometown kid&#8217;s dream. Signing with a power five team in your backyard is a dream come true, but he is not the first to do so. Former Penn State great and current New York Giants linebacker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/nathan-stupar-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Stupar<\/a> did the same thing in 2007. It is not often that a hometown kid can make the transition from high school football hero, to college football great, but Ellis is that player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hometown Kid Keaton Ellis Signs with Penn State Hometown kid Keaton Ellis signs with Penn State. Ellis adds speed and agility to an inexperienced secondary. He is a four-star cornerback recruit, per 247Sports composite rankings. Ellis helped lead the State College Little Lions to the Pennsylvania State Semi-Finals a month ago. He did so while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[4109,2370,4229,3438,4227,3595,4228,3701,309,4230],"class_list":["post-19480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-2019-early-signing-period","tag-amani-oruwariye","tag-joey-porter-jr","tag-john-reid","tag-keaton-ellis","tag-kj-hamler","tag-nate-stupar","tag-nick-scott","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-tariq-castro-fields"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}